{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/834",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Charge Benefits (General) Amendment Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-amendment-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 78 of the General Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 78 (persons to whom benefit is to be paid) —\n(a) in paragraph (3), at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Except in cases to which paragraph (4) applies,”;\n(b) for paragraph (4) there shall be substituted the following paragraph —\n“(4) Where payments of community charge benefit to which a person is entitled on account of his liability to pay a collective community charge contribution have not yet been made, the appropriate authority may, where —\n(a) that person remains liable for a collective community charge contribution in respect of his residence in premises for which a collective community charge is payable;\n(b) his residence in those premises has ceased; and\n(c) the authority considers it impracticable to pay the benefit to the person concerned,\npay the outstanding benefit to the person to whom the relevant contribution is owed without obtaining the consent of the person who is liable for that contribution.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/834/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:21:47.303490+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}